Room Service Ambassador

Summary Job Description:

Room Service Ambassador Full Time - 1st Shift Objectives are to skillfully perform multiple tasks necessary to operate the Food and Nutrition Services/Dining Services Department to prepare and serve attractive, nutritious, satisfying meals and to provide quality nutrition care in a safe, sanitary, and cost-effective manner to patients, clients, and customers.

Job Description:

The purpose of the Room Service Ambassador is to serve meals to patients in a professional, efficient manner; instruct patients on the meal ordering system; assist patients with placing their meal orders within the limitations of the physician prescribed diet; and to assess patients' capabilities to utilize the meal order system. The Room Service Ambassador will be able to provide basic information to a patient regarding their physician prescribed diet and will alert the patient's Clinical Dietitian and/or Nurse when further education or assessment is needed. The Room Service Ambassador is the main representative (or "face") of the Food and Nutrition Services Department on patient floors. The Room Service Ambassador position works much of their time without direct supervision: Ensures services provided for patients, employees, and visitors are of high quality and maintain or enhance the patient and customer experience. Delivers the correct menu (diet compliant) to the patient. Instruct patients on meal ordering systems following an established script. Obtains meal orders from patients and transfers the meal order into the FNS technology system via a tablet. Assist patients and/or their families/guardians with meal orders and ensure orders are compliant with their physician ordered diet. Serve meals for patients in a professional and efficient manner. Retrieves completed meals from patient rooms in a timely manner. Mediates patient concerns regarding meal service. Communicates with members of other departments effectively and concisely regarding patient support, issues, requests and other special situations. Assumes the role of patient advocate regarding food services.

Essential Qualifications:

High school diploma or GED equivalent Food Handler's Permit required by Madison County.

Benefits:

Full-Time 32 weekly hours - 40 weekly hours Health, Vision, Dental and Pet Insurance Life Insurance Short Term and Long-Term Disability and Life Insurance Identity Theft Protection Tuition Reimbursement up to $6,000 annually Company paid Maternity and Paternity Leave 5 days of Paid Time Off available upon hire Bereavement Leave (includes pets) PTO Sell Back Program Compassionate Leave Sharing Program (PTO Donation) Employee Support Fund, for employees in need of emergency financial support Retirement with Company Match Work Experience Education If you would like to be part of a growing family focused on supporting clinical excellence, teamwork and innovation, we urge you to apply now! Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of 10 hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 470 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics. Baptist Health's eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates two joint venture hospitals: the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana, and the Baptist Health Rehabilitation Hospital, a 40-bed inpatient rehabilitation facility with Encompass Health, based in Birmingham, Alabama. Baptist Health employs more than 24,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states. Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence. Baptist Health's employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has more than 1,820 employed providers offering care in 78 specialties, including approximately 862 physicians and 958 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health's physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.

EEO Statement:

Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, and seeks to employ individuals without regard to race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military status, religious or political beliefs, protected veteran status, employment status or any other protected class identified in any federal, state, or local law. Baptist Health specifically encourages minority, female, disabled, veteran and other candidates from diverse backgrounds to apply and strengthen our team. Please note that Baptist Health is a drug-free workplace and employment with Baptist Health is subject to post offer, pre-employment drug testing.

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